Vivisecting Supernatural Bloody Mary

Because We love Vivesecting Supernatural. No Particular Order. I am trying to convince Wren to join me in writing a Supernatural encyclopedia like this for lost: Okay Without Further Ado …Another Vivisected Supernatural

‘Bloody Mary’, AKA that one where Phil Scriggcia made Jared and Jensen stumble around in a pitch-black void for the entirety of the episode because of Ambience or something. It’s fucking gorgeous, actually. There are lush ridiculous pools of shadow everywhere. Also, this got really repetitive and kinda derpy, and I think next time I do one of these posts I’m going to have to get really, really pissed first, because then at least I’ll have an excuse for essentially saying ‘look at all the DARK’ over and over again for fifteen pages.

I binge watched the first eight seasons in February 2015, when I was a young, fragile horror-movie-virgin, and this shot made me scared of my own house. We have this creepy light switch on a string in the bathroom and, like. Have you ever seen a light switch swinging eerily back and forth in the dead flat light of two in the morning? I’m serious, it’s horrifying.

I love how the dots on the windshield speckle their faces, and I love the fact that both of them look like absolute shit in this scene.

All that gorgeous dimness. Also, I have a suggestion: rewatch the show. Every time Venetian blinds show up, everyone takes a shot. The last one to go blind gets the honor of winning.

Silhouettes; the inversion of the idea of Sam-and-Dean as heroes.

I love it when the show uses fadeouts. They’re so rare and so evocative when they do. Like the one in ABHL part one.

This shot reminds me of Citizen Kane. I have never seen Citizen Kane. Possibly this is a memory from a previous existence.

Give me all this noir shit.

This lighting is so good! You can see right through their eyes!

I kinda love the dreamy, blurry backgrounds in this scene. It’s almost too much.

I might make the next appreciation post a drinking game. Take a shot every time eyelash shadows. (Getting drunk might help me upload faster, too.)

I love all the shit with mirrors in this episode. It works with the whole doppelganger theme and also it just looks really really good.

Did… did electric lighting not exist in 2005, or…?

RIDICULOUS CRYSTALS OF LIGHT. (I think this photo’s out of sequence, but if I try to move it WordPress is going to throw a bitch fit, so never mind.)

I kind of like this shot because everything just looks a tiny bit out of focus, and that open door is all skewed and creepy, and VENETIAN BLINDS, and that thing Sam’s holding looks like a fucking black void into the floor and hello, House of Leaves.

I love this. It’s all chiaroscuro and grimy and PORES. I love it when the dirt and the sheer grubbiness of their lives is visible like this, in details.

Just. Black pits of shadow. Ridiculous.

What a shot, holy shit. Like- the stairs and the blocking and just. PHIL.

Yes yes yes blurriness and clarity and reflections.

This is also just an amazing shot. Also, everything is kind of bleached and off-colour in this episode even when it isn’t super dark.

And this is just super dark. They look like shadows. It’s subversive.

Eyelashes. And you can only see half of her face. Everyone is fragmented, or doubled, or reflected; nothing is seen cleanly. That won’t change.

They look marooned. Which, I mean. Everyone’s lost at all times on this show.

This is weirdly pleasurable in that most of the frame is just darkness and also how often is it that we see a chandelier and a Winchester in the same frame. And there’s a sharpness to the cut of those shadows.